Weight training question

When I was doing weights with a personal trainer, they told me I should lift 2-3 times a week and always skip a day.

I think that is too long of a rest. They do say to rest at minimum 24 hours to let your muscles recover and rebuild. I lift every other day (3x a week), with two days between "weeks". But there are different ways to lift. You could lift four days a week: arms one day, legs the next, repeat, and also do core every other day. Good luck!!!

1. How many days should you rest inbetween weight lightting.

2. I am currently resting 3 to 5 days.

No SET days per say, listen to your body and you will know when you need to rest. Three to five days in-between sessions is far too long to see any benefit, basically each time you lift will be like the first time. You need to let your muscles recover but that also means that one day you work one muscle group and then the next day you lift a different muscle group.

Examples:
mon: chest / back
tue: shoulders / legs
wed: arms or off (you can usually incorporate arms into one of the others if you want)
thu: chest / back
fri: shoulders legs
sat & sun: active rest of some kind

or
mon: heavy upper body lifting
tue: heavy lower body lifting
wed: core work and / or active rest
thu: upper body dynamic lifting
fri: lower body dynamic lifting
sat: core work and / or active rest
sun: off or active rest

Learn to auto-regulate your training and rest cycle, you recover differently from other people and a set pattern isn't always the best.

1. How many days should you rest inbetween weight lightting.

2. I am currently resting 3 to 5 days.

No SET days per say, listen to your body and you will know when you need to rest. Three to five days in-between sessions is far too long to see any benefit, basically each time you lift will be like the first time. You need to let your muscles recover but that also means that one day you work one muscle group and then the next day you lift a different muscle group.

Examples:
mon: chest / back
tue: shoulders / legs
wed: arms or off (you can usually incorporate arms into one of the others if you want)
thu: chest / back
fri: shoulders legs
sat & sun: active rest of some kind

or
mon: heavy upper body lifting
tue: heavy lower body lifting
wed: core work and / or active rest
thu: upper body dynamic lifting
fri: lower body dynamic lifting
sat: core work and / or active rest
sun: off or active rest

Learn to auto-regulate your training and rest cycle, you recover differently from other people and a set pattern isn't always the best.

Ooo...good point! I forgot about if you're doing different muscle groups different days. My trainer has me doing a total body weight training workout 2-3 times/week, but I'm sure I could do more days/week if I was targeting different muscle groups each time.

Full body training isn't bad when you're starting but you're likely to plateau quickly and body part splits will become more effective. You can always go back to a full body circuit once and a while to help shake things up but in general body part splits are more effective.